Kitchen Garden Walls and Gardener's Cottage at Coley Park Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Garden wall, cottage.

Kitchen Garden Walls and Gardener's Cottage at Coley Park Farm

WRENN ID
shadowed-chapel-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Reading
Constituency
Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1978
Type
Garden wall, cottage
Address
Kitchen Garden Walls and Gardener's Cottage at Coley Park Farm, Wensley Road
OS grid reference
SU 707 720
Coordinates
51.44269, -0.9841
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The kitchen garden walls and gardener's cottage at Coley Park Farm date from the 18th century. The extensive walls are made of red brick, standing 11 feet tall, featuring English and other bonding patterns, with occasional blue headers. They have a plain soldier course at the top for capping and a plinth. The walls have been breached to the north-west and south-west.

In the south wall, there is a gardener's cottage, which has an early 19th-century front added to an older building. This two-storey structure is also made of red brick and includes a band above the ground floor and offset eaves courses. It has a slate roof with end chimneys. The cottage features three windows on the first floor, which are two-light leaded casements, and two ground floor windows with segmental heads, along with a glazing bar sash window to the right. The central entrance has a four-panel door with a three-pane overlight above it, and the gable ends are pedimented. The rear of the cottage shows older brickwork, and there is a washhouse to the west.

Local climate

Kitchen Garden Walls and Gardener's Cottage at Coley Park Farm receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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